On Nov 28, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Andreas Grosam wrote: > This will only work if we can safely assume the sender is using 4 byte > floats. This cannot be guaranteed, since the size of floats is platform > dependend. So, *if possible* I would recommend to send these floats as > decimal strings and then convert these number strings to whatever math type > appropriate on the receiver site.
While possible, it's highly unlikely these days to get data from a platform that doesn't adhere to float is IEE 32-bit and double is IEE 64-bit. Plus conversion to/from strings is likely to be subject to roundoff errors unless you're really careful. -- Scott Ribe [email protected] http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
